anatomy of a prospective payment system

... the MAI covariance matrix Rη can be approximated as a block diagonal matrix and the block that appears in its main diagonal is given by (A.4) Note that such an approx-imation has already been adopted ... delays and gains of the multipath channel An approx-imate decoupling of the nonlinear cost function in terms of the delay parameters leads to an iterative procedure of 1D optimizations At each ... pseudoinverse of a matrix It is apparent that the most difficult part of the above op-timization procedure is the maximization in (10) After the optimum delay parameters have been estimated, path gain parameters

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... before radiation treatment, 1, 6, 12, 24, and at least 36 months after the end of RT All salivary samples were collected at least one hour after a meal at a standardized time of the day (9:00 am to ... hypopharynx, the sparing of submandibular salivary glands can only be taken into consideration in special cases Sparing of parotid glands as well as submandibular glands with dose reduction of Trang ... of RT (Table 5) Discussion Bilateral irradiation in patients with head and neck cancer leads to a dependent change of salivary output and altered salivary composition [9,15,16] Small salivary

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... an image of a star as a ring or arc of light Some nice examples of gravitational lenses can be found at www.iam.ubc.ca/⬃newbury/lenses/glgallery.html The web page at http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/news/07nov97.html ... it actually falls. Room Near a Star Acceleration or Gravitational Pull Light Beam Bends Trang 6around an intervening star in any direction (360 degrees), gravitational lenses often pro-vide an ... “special purpose” (to be defined later), then several companies have probably written software that takes advantage of the special features of the computer We can purchase this software and use

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... so a boot program will always exist and will not change The boot program can download and burn pro-gram flash That way, we have a minimal chance of corrupting the propro-gram to the extent that ... multiply and accumulate steps Each term in the equation is another MAC Generally, the remainder can be made arbitrarily small by carrying out more terms (making n larger) A tutorial on the Taylor ... time DRAM behaves the way it does for one primary reason: It only uses one transistor to store a bit It does this by taking advantage of some of the capacitance under the transistor A capacitor

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... in systems requir-ing a great deal of media data (audio or video) Cameras and other media devices connect together using thin, hot-patch serial cables Audio and video can be trans-ferred in real ... will only address magnetic HD disks An HD is basically a spinning disk of magnetic material that can contain bits on its surface A read/write head glides over the surface and provides access to ... problem, and HDs probably do too ■ Error rates HDs do make errors Generally, the signals that are recorded are more than sufficient to allow a proper read of the data ■ Bad disk surface HDs also have

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... significant number of API hooks to enable applications... specialized situations such as handheld systems and unattended robots Software interaction The software has a significant number of API ... joules ENERGY AND POWER SYSTEMS 155 TABLE 6-1 Rechargeable batteries’ watt-hours B ATTERY SIZE W ATT - HOURS B ATTERY MATERIALS D 4.0 Nicad D 7.8 NMH AA 0.6 Nicad AA 1.8 NMH EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENTS ... CONTROL AND SOFTWARE 163 I Software interaction The software is unaware of power-saving measures, so no energy API is needed ENERGY AWARE This is a robot that incorporates one or two of the

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... from a distance This is save a characteristic, the straight the bacon can from the project crew of a daily The read translations of this text are now considerable at this pig-like Idiom rather ... bacon” of the project team someday Those reading translations of this text are now rather quite confused at this porcine idiom As an experiment, I have fed this paragraph to a computerized translator ... konfus As experiment I drew in this point to an automated translator and him from English to the German and to the back translated Before you regard a robot translator establishing, read Trang 9the

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... real While you are a passenger, just imagine you are driving and pay-ing attention to the road Drive down the street past a long row of parked cars At a con-stant speed, pass one parked car each ... conservation and the con-servation of momentum Just as the human brain must act to turn a awkward person into a graceful athlete, so too a robot’s control system must run algorithms capable of streamlining ... Theorem We cannot capture the essence of a digitized signal without sampling it at a frequency twice that of the signal Stated another way, we must sample a signal twice as fast as the highest-frequency

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... filters are a mathemati-cal construct that can be realized in various physimathemati-cal ways We will discuss the mathe-matical structure first and the physical implementation much later in a separate ... low-pass filter, the calculations are simpler The gain is flat at a value of 1 and then drops off completely (in the ideal math equation) Taking advantage of the simplified filter shape, and with ... that runs computations for the antisinc compensation The result is a new compute block outputting a stream of D/A values at a rate faster than rate N The D/A will then run at a higher rate than

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... and ran a pirate radio sta-tion out of a private house We broadcast as WRFI for about two years, playing the music we felt like playing and rebroadcasting the BBC as our newscast I was a DJ and ... involve a modification of one or more of these three parameters One or more of the parameters (A, v, or u) may take on one or more values based on the data As the data input, I, takes on one of n ... Data is recorded as pulses on tape and is read back at a later time A sequence of pulses can be constructed in many different ways Engineers have nat-urally come up with dozens of different ways

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... unexpanded data as an input The state Trang 8machine creates the output data The state machine changes states depending on the flow of input data bits Each one and zero from the unexpanded data ... accumulated back a few cycles ■ Outputs data As the decoder state machine changes states, it triggers an exam-ination of the historical state change data If the historical data all makes sense, ... to make a 32 QAM system and to double them again to make a 64 QAM system The symbols in the 32 QAM sys-tem can be arranged in any geometric arrangement but are best packed into an approx-imation

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... originally designed as a one-way system, many of the cable systems now have reverse channels capable of taking information from the homes back to the cable company The standard that most cable ... DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD (DES) DES has won the backing of the government and is present in many commercial trans-actions today The calculation methods are fairly straightforward and chipsets are ... URLs Many computer soft-ware libraries contain subroutines to support secure communications If the data stream moves too fast for software encryption, hardware chips are available that can encrypt

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... one small example of a trick that may help Consider a three-part robot with parts A, B, and C Also, assume all fasteners have some play that increases over time Let’s call the typical play T millimeters; ... shape and extrapolate the parame-ters Here’s one example. Suppose you want to know the compression strength of an L-shaped beam made of a specific type of plastic If the manufacturer has already ... to a fixed speed? Let’s assume the following: The bike chassis, without the wheels, has a mass of W1 Each wheel has a mass of W2 and has a radius of R The bike will accelerate to a speed of V

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... female; their average age was 43.9 years. 75 (46.9%) patients had asthma, 25 (15.6%) had COPD, 8 (5.0%) had an overlap of COPD and asthma, and 52 (32.5%) had no OAD. At a cut- off level of 46 parts ... Patients with asthma had the highest average of FENO levels. Patients with COPD and with an overlap of COPD and asthma were significantly older and had more pack years of smoking than asthma ... *prevalence of asthma = 46.9%, prevalence of 'no asthma' = 53.1% § prevalence of asthma = 36,3%, prevalence of 'no asthma' = 63.7% Table 3: Likelihood ratio at different cut-off

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... provide an accurate tracking estimate as to the current location of the object This camera communication is done over a local area network (LAN) and allows for the sharing and propagation of tracking ... important activity that must be done with any camera within the system is calibration Because of this, there is a need for an accurate and efficient method of calibrating the camera There are many ... tracking system to be able to handle and utilize a shared and global coordinate system and provide coordinate system handoff and transformation as an object moves from one coordinate system to another

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 10:54

... has a lifetime of one trading day Throughoutthe trading day market participants are trading an asset that onlyexchanges hands after trading ceases Since a one day repo today isnot the same asset ... day 234 (Dec 1) Statistical analysis of the dataand newspaper accounts of the crisis indicate that the buildup to the crisisstarts a few days earlier Effectively, we observe a structural break ... imbalances and stock prices in the 1987 crash. Trang 3Furfine (2002) who analyzes US interbank payment flows, knowing the posure of each bank to every other bank Several authors make use of datasets

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 11:24

... subcontract from RAND to Harvard University and represents a collaborative effort involving faculty from the department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, Sargent College of Health and ... and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University and RAND Health Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Final report on assessment instruments for prospective payment system : appendices ... publications not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors R® is a registered trademark A profile of RAND Health, abstracts of its publications, and ordering information...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cache refresh ... access to cached data than the data manager has permitted (e.g., a write fault on a page made read-only by a pager_data_lock call), the kernel issues a pager_data_unlock call The data manager is ... memory as a cache of secondary storage data pages The effect of this kind of caching on the performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic Compilation of a small...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... justification is that a page can have a high PageRank if there are many pages that point to it, or if there are some pages that point to it and have a high PageRank Intuitively, pages that are well ... DARPA and NASA, and by Interval Research, and the industrial partners of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project References Best of the Web 1994 Navigators http://botw.org/1994/awards/navigators.html ... in an uproar, and OpenText has ceased to be a viable search engine But less blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 20:20

... on Management of Data, May 1994 [CS92] RakeshChandmand Arie Segev.ManagingTemporalFinancial Data in anExtensible Database.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases(VWB), ... supports relational data as well as sequencedata, using a novel design paradigm of enhancedabstractdata types (BADTs ) The systemimplementation basedon this paradigmallows sequence relational queriesto ... valueis created,or determinedautomatically by the system Catalog Management: Each E-ADT can provide catalogs that maintain statisticsand storeschemainformation Further, certain valuesmay be named Query...

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